Preamble:
I am not religious, and neither is my wife, and neither are our families. Nevertheless, for reasons that I think are much funnier if left unstated, I ended up needing to baptize my daughters on two days' notice.
This is not "get my daughters baptized", note, this is "me, specifically, performing the baptism".
I obviously needed to write a baptismal speech, and after a few hours of tinkering, the following is what I came up with. I'm posting it here because I think some people might enjoy it. You are welcome to use it, though note that parts were cribbed from multiple sources that I don't have copyright over, so, y'know, maybe don't sell... (read 594 more words →)
This is far less-known than the examples you gave, but I strongly recommend playing Save the Date, which ties into some of the concepts that you mention here.
Which I will not go into the details on for spoiler reasons :)